UID:
almahu_9949703711602882
Umfang:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047400356
,
9789004116405
Serie:
International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ; 76
Inhalt:
The Control of Fuddle and Flash: A Sociological History of the Regulation of Alcohol and Opiates provides a historical and comparative overview describing the regulation of the use of alcohol and drugs (opiates) in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. It explains the conditions and causes of the various regulatory regimes, such as the economic benefits reaped from the colonial opium trade and the role that duties on alcohol played in state formation. Moreover, it explores the consequences of different regulatory regimes, e.g. the shift in the supply of (increasingly strong) liquor and the professionalisation of crime, both unintended consequences of American Prohibition. The Control of Fuddle and Flash provides original insights into the political economy of regulatory regimes, and sheds new light on the contemporary debate on the 'drug problem'.
Anmerkung:
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. A taxonomy of intoxicants -- An alternative classification -- Developments in neurophysiology -- The action of opiates -- The lessons of ethology -- 2. The supply side: alcohol -- The control of yeast -- Beer, wine and strong liquor -- Commercialization and increased scale of operations -- 3. The supply side: opiates -- The domestication of Papaver somniferum -- The three markets for opium -- 4. The colonial opium trade -- Britain and the Netherlands: a profitable trade -- The global regulation of opiates: the role played by the United States -- 5. Excise taxes on alcohol: three countries -- The sociology of taxation -- Alcohol excise and state formation in the Netherlands and Britain -- Alcohol excise and state formation in the United States -- 6. Physicians as suppliers -- The origins of national medical regimes for opiates -- Morphine and the hypodermic syringe -- 7. Industrialization and the war on alcohol -- Three paces of industrialization -- The temperance movement and its origins -- The anti-alcohol struggle: three variants -- Coda -- 8. Physicians as detoxifiers -- Alcoholism: from sin to syndrome -- Medical practitioners and opiate addiction: a history of delayed reaction -- From sin to sickness-and back again? The modern addiction syndrome -- 9. The dynamics of prohibition and illegal supply -- US Prohibition": 1920-1933 -- The illegal market for opiates: 1912 to the present day -- Illegal drug markets: global features -- 10 Summary and conclusions -- State formation and the regulation of intoxicants -- Physicians as suppliers -- Industrialization and the anti-alcohol movement -- Physicians as detoxifiers -- The dynamics of prohibition and illegal supply -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Update -- Credits -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: The Control of Fuddle and Flash : A Sociological History of the Regulation of Alcohol and Opiates. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2000 ISBN 9789004116405
Sprache:
Englisch
